Example Sentences

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The soft-throwing 40-year-old dotter was relieved with one out in the sixth inning.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 7, 2021

Basically, that advocate is the “T” crosser and the “I” dotter, Peters said, sticking to a family “like glue.”

From Washington Times • Jan. 14, 2018

Ma lill dotter, wad dad meggin you cry?

From The Grandissimes by Cable, George Washington

Further conversation was interrupted by an order from the gun captain to resume dotter practice.

From The Battleship Boys' First Step Upward or, Winning Their Grades as Petty Officers by Patchin, Frank Gee

Instead of the knocker and dotter combined, many planters omit the wheels, and make a separate implement with one wheel and a handle, to work by hand, as represented in figure 3.

From The Peanut Plant Its Cultivation And Uses by Jones, B. W.